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Eggs have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, and scientists are questioning whether the cholesterol in eggs is as bad for you as previously thought.

To rely on computers to count apples in an orchard, you need to help them out. And the bright idea of shining a light on them at night could be the answer

The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics states that if two bodies are each in thermal equilibrium with some third body, then they are also in equilibrium with each other.

Remember "The Dress" -- the photograph that sparked an online firestorm about whether the garment was white and gold or blue and black? Now, researchers have studied the phenomenon scientifically.

Empathy motivates rats to free each other from an upsetting wet cage, and they do it more quickly if they have experienced the unpleasant situation themselves

outbreak of a stomach bug in Oregon tied to swimming in a lake highlights a perhaps less obvious hazard of summer fun.

Meditation and mindfulness have become the new aspirin, a Buddha pill without side effects - but not all their effects are positive, argue two psychologists (full text available to subscribers)

Murky water is an excellent cloak, masking underwater features and objects from view. Sound can pierce straight through the murk by traveling around suspended particles in the water with minimal scattering. But sound's p...

The tire-size opah, which can weigh up to 200 pounds, thrives in cold ocean depths by keeping its blood warm, making it the first fish ever discovered to generate its own body heat. It does so in a bizarre way.

Driverless cars may be coming, but several problems will need to be solved before that can be become a reality.

Elijah Martin is a graduate student in Dr. Deepak Srivastava's Lab at Gladstone Institutes where he studies how the heart develops.

Thanks to Twitter, the chances of spotting the aurora borealis are getting better, a new study reports.

When fruit flies are threatened with overhead shadows, they delay returning to the danger area, even foregoing an easy meal

Cinnamon and statins could interact and wind up damaging the liver, researchers say.

We now know holding your breath can raise your pain threshold – here are seven other simple tricks that can help ease pain

The most common killers in the United States are well known -- heart disease and cancer. But there are other, less common causes of death that are actually much more typical in certain states compared to the nation as a ...

In his latest book Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here --

"TRUST, but verify." That was Ronald Reagan's mantra for nuclear agreements, though the proverb itself is Russian. But verifying that a country is not cheating on one important matter of nuclear diplomacy, the manufactur...

Hand in glove with Peter Homer FROM the Longitude Prize offered by Britain's parliament in 1714, as reward for a way for ships to determine their location when out of sight of land, to the Orteig Prize, offered in 1919 f...

ON THE desk of Chris Case, chief technology officer of Oxford Photovoltaics, there sits a small but heavy vial filled with a canary-yellow liquid. "That's enough for a kilowatt," he says. The material in the vial is call...

A simple visual perception training task can improve vision by one or two lines on an eye chart, leading to super vision and improved gameplay in athletes.

Brain images show that mouse neurons can be altered during early development, so areas deal with different senses from the ones they typically process